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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry of 2013 to Karplus, Leavitt and Warshel came to me as a shock. A Nobel Prize for “multiscale models of complex chemical systems”, which then overlooked the true founding fathers of the discipline of molecular

On October 29, 1998, at 2 pm, an announcement was read by a Christie’s representative to the audience gathered in the display room at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York: “We are pleased to inform our clients that the Federal Court of

Since we are still under the Halloween week, I am using the pumpkin theme as a start for the fun-physics letter of today. I would have loved to post this one the last Sunday, but it would have been too

I wanted to offer you a paper published exactly 100 years ago, so I went searching for something interesting in the Physical Review issue of October 1920. And I found a paper by some Fernando Sanford, a teacher and science

The 2020 Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose had a seemingly curious motivation: “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”. Indeed, the recipient did not discover or formulated the

I am indebted for this story to Kevin Brown… or maybe Fred Olden… or whoever is behind the mysterious (and often inspiring) website www.mathpages.com, which has been running for about 20 years now. I am relaying it here for my friends,